20 Oct 2004
Quadrant Press pack
K 2004 press pack
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS LAUNCHES COMPLETE MATERIALS OFFERING FOR FOOD PROCESSING, PACKAGING INDUSTRIES
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) has unveiled a complete line of Food Compliant Materials (FCM). The new materials are designed to provide superior performance for machined plastic parts used in food and beverage processing and packaging equipment in food-product contact. These Quadrant materials are also suitable for machined non-direct-food-contact-compliant applications such as shields, wall, and ceilings in food processing operations where cleanliness is an important issue.
Recovery trend continues in first half year
Zurich, August 27, 2004, 7.15 a.m. – In the first half of 2004 Quadrant reported net sales of 247.1 million Swiss francs, compared with 205.4 million Swiss francs in the first half of 2003.
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS DEVELOPS NEW STOCK SHAPES SPECIFICALLY FOR MEDICAL, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETS
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) has introduced a portfolio of stock shapes designed specifically for machined components used in life science equipment such as pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices. As a principal benefit, the new products allow Quadrant to extend full traceability and biocompatibility testing from raw materials to its stock shapes.
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS’ MATERIALS DELIVER LIGHT-WEIGHT PERFORMANCE TO LIFE OPTICS’ HEAD-MOUNTED SURGICALVISION SYSTEM
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – When Life Optics needed a lightweight but durable engineered plastic machined component to replace the aluminum parts in its head-mounted surgical vision system, Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) provided multiple material solutions to meet Life Optics’ high-performance specifications. QEPP’s stock shapes provide unique benefit in terms of lightweight strength and stiffness as well as excellent resistance to chemicals and wear to Life Optic’s high-end M5 surgical Varioscope.
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS’ KETRON® PEEK-1000MATERIAL DELIVERS DIMENSIONAL AND TEMPERATURE STABILITY TO H&O EQUIPMENTS CRYOPEN®
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products’ (QEPP) materials delivered critical performance properties to a cryo therapy instrument developed by the Belgium firm, H&O Equipments (www.ho-equipments.com). The device is called a CryoPen® and it freezes localized sections of human tissue, thereby destroying them while keeping the tissue’s fiber structure.
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS EXTENDS BENEFITS OF REACTION INJECTION MOULDING TO NYLON MATERIALS
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Low-pressure moulding methods, such as reaction injection moulding (RIM), have extended the economies and design benefits of injection moulding to applications once limited by mould cost, volume or processing challenges. Now, Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) is extending the benefits of Low Pressure Casting (LPC) to nylon-based materials.
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS’ ENGINEERING THERMOPLASTIC LENDS A LITTLE MUSCLE TO BOWFLEX POWER ROD® TECHNOLOGY
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Body builders, like engineers, desire maximum performance for the lowest cost. The Bowflex Ultimate and Extreme™ 2 models, among the best selling home gym equipment in the U.S., delivers a cost/performance ratio that both engineers and home fitness enthusiasts can appreciate. Nautilus, the machines’ manufacturer, delivered the goods with help from Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP), who provided engineering thermoplastics and design expertise for the equipment’s development.
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS’ TECHTRON PPS OPTIMIZES PERFORMANCE, MINIMIZES COSTS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) provides semiconductor equipment manufacturers with a broad portfolio of proven, high-performance, machinable plastics that continue to fuel innovative better manufacturing tools while minimizing the overall cost of ownership.
QUADRANT CMS EXPANDS OPERATIONS IN HUNGARY AND BELGIUM
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (CMS) will start production operations in Budapest, Hungary, to meet emerging demands. The move will free space at Quadrant CMS’s facilities in Tielt (Belgium) and enable the company to add 2 K (2 Components) moulding capability to its offering both in Tielt (B) and Budapest (H).
QUADRANT KEY TO AIR SPRINGS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Delivering a combination of product development, production and assembly of subsystems from a single source, Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (QCMS) is a key partner with numerous first-tier suppliers to the automotive industry. Quadrant lends expertise and resources to customers’ design and manufacturing efforts, enabling its partners to leverage high-precision moulded parts for safety, electrical, under-the-bonnet and interior automotive applications.
QUADRANT CREATIVE MOULDING & SYSTEMS DEVELOPS INJECTION MOULDING TECHNOLOGY FOR ERTALYTE TX MATERIAL
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (QCMS) has developed technology to injection mould Ertalyte TX PET-P. This new commercial capability enables Quadrant to offer its customers Ertalyte TX products in large cost effective series and more flexible designs.
QUADRANT CREATIVE MOULDING & SYSTEMS PROVIDES THE MEDICAL MARKET WITH A FULL RANGE OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING SERVICES
TIELT, BELGIUM – K 2004 – In addition to the usual challenges of designing, manufacturing and bringing new products to market, designers and manufacturers of medical technology also confront stringent industrial and biocompatibility standards for their products. As an integrated injection moulder and an established supplier to medical markets, Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (QCMS) can provide the expertise and resources to the manufacture of plastics components and sub-assemblies from development through the production of prototypes to the end product.
PROVIDING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FROM FLUOROPLASTICS
LENZBURG, SWITZERLAND – K 2004 – Fluoroplastics are well known under the Teflon brand name and most people are familiar with it as giving non-sticky properties in pans for household use. However, what many people do not know is that fluoroplastics find a much wider use in many industrial and non-industrial applications, having remarkable temperature, purity, high chemical and corrosion resistance properties that provide high performing, cost-efficient solutions for applications in industries like semiconductors, chemical processing, environmental and energy management or oil exploration. Under the SYMALIT brand name, Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products offers a number of fluoroplastics including plain sheets, fabric backed lining sheets, films, rods, and other forms made of materials such as PVDF, ECTFE, ETFE, FEP, MFA or PFA, all of which are fluoroplastics with distinctive performance qualities.
SymaLITE COMPOSITES OFFER LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS
LENZBURG, SWITZERLAND – K 2004 – It has been a banner year for Quadrant Plastic Composites’ SymaLITE products. Since the lightweight composite’s commercial launch just over a year ago, it has earned the prestigious Innovation Award in 2003 for new plastics applications from the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), and it has also delivered concrete solutions to several automotive designs.
GMT AND GMTexTM FROM QUADRANT PLASTIC COMPOSITES FORGE NEW AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS, INCREASING MARKET POTENTIAL
LENZBURG, SWITZERLAND – K 2004 – Glass mat thermoplastics (GMT) are used in the automotive industry for manufacturing semi-structural and structural components which have to satisfy the highest crash safety standards for the protection of passengers and pedestrians. GMT’s high impact resistance, good fatigue and low creep characteristics have forged new applications where manufacturers need to meet cost targets and add function integration to their products. As the world’s leading GMT manufacturer, Quadrant Plastic Composites cooperates closely with the automotive industry and system suppliers in developing new component concepts for future generations of vehicles.
QUADRANT TO SHOWCASE EXPANDED CAPABILITIES, PRODUCT OFFERINGS AT K-SHOW 2004
TIELT (B) / LENZBURG (CH) – K 2004 – Quadrant, a global leader in polymer materials processing, will showcase its expanded capabilities, resources, and portfolio of advanced engineering plastics stock shapes, plastic composites, injection mouldings and cable protection systems at the K2004 International Trade Fair from October 20 to 27 in Düsseldorf, Germany. The company will be exhibiting in Hall 6, Booth E23.
QUADRANT ENGINEERING PLASTIC PRODUCTS INTRODUCES NEXT GENERATION MATERIALS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING AND TEST APPLICATIONS
TIELT, BELGIUM – k 2004 – Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products (QEPP) has developed four new products to extend the production life and reliability of applications in Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) and in test and handling components. The company has also announced a development grade of an ultra high purity product available on a limited basis for co-development projects prior to commercialization planned for mid-2005.
QUADRANT PLASTIC COMPOSITES RECEIVES AVK-TV INNOVATION AWARD FOR 2004
LENZBURG, SWITZERLAND – September 29, 2004 – Quadrant Plastic Composites (QPC), the world market leader in GMT and lightweight composites, was yesterday presented with the innovation award of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verstärkter Kunststoffe – Technische Vereinigung (AVK-TV: Reinforced Plastics Association – Technical Federation) in the «Best Application of the Year» category. QPC won this award for the underbody shields of the BMW 1 and 3 models, which are manufactured using the new SymaLITE technology. The AVK-TV Innovation Award is one of the most prestigious engineering awards in Europe in the reinforced plastics field.
QUADRANT CMS MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE STREAMLINES PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
TIELT, BELGIUM – October 2004 – Leader in manufactured plastics components and sub-assemblies, Quadrant Creative Moulding & Systems (CMS) has taken a lead in applying a high-tech approach to product development by integrating a unique online management tool to model, track and smooth every aspects of moulding production.
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